Foreign Investment, Urban Unemployment, and Informal Sector

Shigemi Yabuuchi () and Hamid Hamid
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Shigemi Yabuuchi: Nagoya City University, Postal: Shigemi Yabuuchi, Department of Economics Nagoya City University, Yamanohata, Mizuho Nagoya 467-8501 Japan
Hamid Hamid: North Dakota State University

Journal of Economic Integration, 2005, vol. 20, 123-138

Abstract:

In this paper we extend the Harris-Todaro model to include an urban informal sector. The effects of exogenous inflow of foreign capital on outputs, unemployment and welfare are examined in the model where the product of the informal sector is used as an industrial input in the urban formal sector. We also analyze the implications of the capital inflow for income distribution.

Keywords: Harris-Todaro model; Foreign investment; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 O17 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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